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The world would be one hell of a boring place without the endless amount of awkward conversations people endure on a daily basis. When you’re in the middle of it, it’s very little fun indeed. We get it. Blushing, sweating and wanting to disappear are some of the very well known adverse effects that come with it. But that’s the price to pay for one heck of a story you gotta tell months and even years later. So in perspective, it’s relatively cheap, right?

So today, we are going on a cringeworthy trip into hilariously painful and embarrassingly awkward exchanges between individuals that have been shared by people online. Scroll down through the collection of priceless convos below, upvote your favorite ones and be sure to share your own awkward convo experiences. And if it feels like you’ve heard similarly cringey dialogues in the first seasons of The Office, it’s likely because only reality can be stranger than fiction.

No one is immune to awkward conversations. I mean, we are all social animals living among fellow human beings, and just as it’s sometimes fun and wonderful to be among them, it's also pretty awkward too. We gotta pay the price for all the fun, right?

So even if we agree that the awkward exchanges you wish would disappear are part of human communication and occasionally we’re gonna get that blushing convo thrown into our daily errands, sometimes the exchanges are so much more complex than that. Especially if you’re dealing with someone who really annoys you. Yep, your colleague, tutor, a friend of friend, you know it.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, oops. Yesterday morning my daughter and I were having a chat. She stopped for a minute and started talking into her phone to send a voice message to her bf. I thought she was done and let out a fart. I realised she hadn't finished when she started laughing. She played it back, and yep, you could hear the fart. We said if her bf hears it we will blame the dog.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate those things. It really does seem like they are talking to you and then they always have the nerve to get pissy when you respond as if you routinely look at people's ears before talking

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In order to find out exactly how to remain calm when dealing with people who irritate you, because as you know very well, it’s unavoidable, we spoke with Susan Petang, a certified stress management coach specializing in painful life changes. “For people who are irritating and annoying, ask yourself, 'Why could they be doing that?' Maybe the dog threw up in their shoes. Maybe they had an argument a few minutes ago. Maybe they had a horrible childhood and they don't know any better.”

Susan also reminds us of a truth as old as history: “usually other people's bad behavior has nothing to do with us.” And even if that doesn't justify their behavior, it helps you to stay calmer.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, I would've done the same. She should've been more specific. I want ice cream.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You just need to change Your name to "Muslim" - the easiest way to live with it

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The next phase when learning to deal with people you don’t find comfortable is setting boundaries and limits. “Most of the time, the best strategy is to let people's irritating behavior go. It's usually not worth your energy to confront every person who steps on your toes or annoys you. Sometimes, though, you may decide that a line has been crossed and someone's behavior has to be stopped so it doesn't have a negative effect on you.”

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Susan gave a useful example: “To do that, use an XYZ statement: 'When you do X, I feel Y, and I'd like Z.' Here's what that might sound like: ‘When you criticize the reports I do, I feel angry and unhappy. I'd like to get some constructive feedback instead, if you don't like the way I'm writing them.’”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

POUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I just woke up my husband laughing.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spoonerisms!!! Stumper Bicker (bumper sticker) wacklty fives (faculty wives), my grandmother was an unintentional champion.I ended up making it a car ride game for the kids. To take two persons first names and flip the first letters. Bill and Kelly would be Kill and Belly. The kids love it

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is called brain fart. My brain does it too, sometimes. I wanted to order "pizza prosciutto cotto" ~don't have a clue how to write it, but you got the picture. The waitress came and I said instead "pizza prosciutto cotto" "pizziuto prosto". It wouldn't be so bad, if im my language the part "pizziuto" didn't sound like a rude word for female reproductive organ.... Since then I order only quattro formaggi.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mate at work had to interrupt a large meeting to tell some the course she had applied to attend was “fully booked”. Unluckily it came out as “bully *ucked”. It still creases me up 20 plus years on.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That reminds me on an epic fail by a German radio host (my emphatics to all non German speakers): "Sie hören nun die h-Mess-Molle, Verzeihung, die h-Moss-melle… Entschuldigung… die (höchst konzentriert) h. - Moll. - Messe - von Johann Sebaldrian Bach. - Ich bring mich um."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen this so many times in the last year or two and it never gets old

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Sandra Givens
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you, I haven't burst into laughter like this in several years.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was standing in front of my class asking them to use headphones while watching a video on their iPads. I thought I was having a stroke when EVERY combination of switching the sounds around in head phones came out. We all could not stop laughing and I gave up!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen this online so many times but it still makes me laugh

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Brian Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would that per chance be like a mega fart cone, and you purchased it where?

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Virginie Michaud
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Peed myself a little... 😂 And I was laughing so much, couldn't breathe, my husband from the other room said " we have a hyena in the house?"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't stop crying.................these are too funny!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dammit I woke everyone up with my laugh 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Jace
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just run with it. If I catch myself about to mix phonemes, sometimes I just let it happen so that people can have a laugh on me.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn I'm at work. Shouldn't have read this. I sit right in front of my boss.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even people with English as their first language murder it at least once in their lifetime.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m silently chuckling at a conference. Luckily at the back of the room.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Put yourself in her shoes. She is probably posting on Reddit this very moment "Some weird guy asked me if he could pet a muffin I was holding" (I figured that "...he could pet my muffin..." would sound even weirder)

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Most importantly, tone and attitude are everything! “There may be a day when you might irritate someone else—so how would you want to be spoken to? Be the change you want to see, because your actions are teaching others how you want to be treated,” the stress management coach concluded.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In fairness I've never heard of wine served by the liter even in metric countries. In Russia its glass or bottle.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of my dad when he forgot his glasses and asked my mother who the weird guy by the door was. The "weird guy" was a coat hanger in a restaurant.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tesco lad trying to get out of an awkward situation: "nooo, it's part of the meal deal" :D

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The customer: "I was afraid to ask, but yes, I would like them in a bag" :) *Po-po-po-poker face po-po-poker face*

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is my nightmare when I go shoe shopping: that someone will try on or steal my shoes...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's hilarious! It's almost as funny as falling down, and eating ass.🥴😁😆🤣

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Librarians help a LOT of people. There is a good chance they didn't know you. They were probably ready to point you in the direction of the bathroom except you turned and left. They wouldn't have known what to do with the money so it would have been entered as a donation at the end of the day. Lastly, library accounts expire after a year and at my library are deleted after two years of inactivity, meaning no record of the original fine. It's been three years, it's time to go back and start afresh.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why I always make surely to cheek what I've typed before I press scent!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same thing happened to my grandmother. She thought her son (my dad) was calling from college. It was actually some other college kid trying to call his mom. They had a nice chat before they figured it out.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well let's hope this story comes to mind if he ever asks you to marry him.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did something similar....We had a second unscheduled school assembly one week (the first was because a student had died) and asked my friend group "geez who died this time?"...it was a teacher. He was murdered. We got to go home early.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

First of all, maybe they should've started with that and secondly, please learn how to phrase, no matter your position. Not taking orders seems like a good response.

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